ACTOR

Joe Don Baker

1936 - Today

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Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American character actor and a life member of the Actors Studio. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles as a mysterious cowboy drifter in Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969), and as a deputy sheriff in the western Wild Rovers (1971), before receiving fame for his roles as a mafia hitman in Charley Varrick (1973), real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the action film Walking Tall (1973), a brute force detective in Mitchell (1975), deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in Final Justice (1985), and police chief Jerry Karlin in the action-comedy Fletch (1985). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Don Baker has received more than 2,791,630 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Joe Don Baker is the 2,011th most popular actor (down from 1,839th in 2019), the 3,289th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,077th in 2019) and the 928th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Joe Don Bakers by language

Over the past year Joe Don Baker has had the most page views in the with 349,702 views, followed by German (41,971), and Japanese (17,573). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (240.61%), Dutch (80.40%), and Serbo-Croatian (79.24%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joe Don Baker ranks 2,011 out of 13,578. Before him are Sofia Helin, Mel Blanc, Julian Sands, Bill Cobbs, Shashi Kapoor, and Danny Huston. After him are Michel Constantin, Mélanie Laurent, Matti Pellonpää, Ann Miller, Musidora, and Bella Darvi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Joe Don Baker ranks 189. Before him are Lee "Scratch" Perry, Vyacheslav Kebich, Michel Jazy, Han Seung-soo, Fernando Solanas, and Antonio María Rouco Varela. After him are Koji Sasaki, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Hazem El Beblawi, Stefano Delle Chiaie, Valentín Paniagua, and Polina Astakhova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Don Baker ranks 3,289 out of 20,380. Before him are Mel Blanc (1908), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), Bill Cobbs (1934), Lizzo (1988), David Lee Roth (1954), and Jim Thompson (1906). After him are Trini Lopez (1937), Doris Hart (1925), Ann Miller (1923), Charles Barkley (1963), Sung Kang (1972), and Joe Pass (1929).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joe Don Baker ranks 928. Before him are John C. Reilly (1965), Diane Baker (1938), Cherry Jones (1956), Josh Holloway (1969), Mel Blanc (1908), and Bill Cobbs (1934). After him are Ann Miller (1923), Sung Kang (1972), Jean Smart (1951), Marlon Jackson (1957), Barbara Babcock (1937), and John Gavin (1931).

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Television and Movie Roles

GoldenEye
Jack Wade
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon
Nov 16o 19956.9 / 10
Cape Fear
Claude Kersek
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Nov 13o 19917.267 / 10
Tomorrow Never Dies
Jack Wade
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Dec 11o 19976.357 / 10